"I fear you have not been very honest, little Jane-Anne."
She sat up and looked at him.
"Honest! I've told you exactly what happened."
"Certainly, you've been honest to me, but what about Mrs. Cox?"
Jane-Anne hung her head.
"The baby slept at first," she said, "and it was so dull and all the Punches were there—and I got so interested——"
"You've not done what you undertook to do, that was to look after the baby. Mrs. Cox didn't ask you there to read her Punches did she?"
"She'll never have me again, she said so."
"I'm not surprised."
"What will Mrs. Methuen say?"